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Chart Industries Senior Design Engineer in Canton, Georgia
Senior Design Engineer
Location: Canton, GA, United States, 30107
Company: Chart Industries
Ensuring Chart’s Success…
This exciting position will provide you with an opportunity to apply your engineering expertise in a collaborativeenvironment. You will be focused on developing new cryogenic and industrial gas products, taking them from concept to volume production. Assignments are broad in nature requiring the ideal candidate show initiative, be comfortable navigating through ambiguity and be an effective team player. Additionally, this individual will need excellent analytical and strong problem-solving skills in the areas of heat transfer, fluids, thermodynamics, and structural analysis.As a senior member of the engineering team, the Sr. Design Engineer will also improve processes and coach employees.
What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be…
Review designs and ensure product technical performance and ensure conformance with internal design standards, regulatory requirements, and safety best practices
Understand worldwide regulatory requirements (e.g. ASME, PED, CRN, UL, CE, CSA, etc) to produce equipment (pressure vessels, piping, heat exchangers, some electrical equipment) which complies with market requirements
Engage with production teams to ensure designs are cost-effective and manufacturable (DFM)
Participate in or lead risk analysis activities, e.g. DFMEA
Create and perform calculations for pressure vessel structural design, piping and heat exchanger sizing, structural weldments, bolting, etc.
Research and conduct additional calculations or testing to mitigate risks in diverse engineering engineering disciplines including fluid flow, thermodynamics, heat transfer, static structural analysis, dynamic structural analysis (vibration and shock)
Utilize structural FEA for design optimization, failure avoidance, code compliance
Prepare technical design documentation (specification drawings, calculations, risk analyses, etc) and submit to regulatory authorities for new and revised designs
Manage organization of technical design documentation to ensure security and accessibility
Serve as primary technical liaison and manage communication with regulatory bodies, government organizations , etc as it relates to design approvals, changes
Assist with maintaining regulatory compliance by managing timelines for document preparation, submission, etc
Assist and instruct designers and other team members in practical pressure vessel, piping, heat exchanger design
Other Essential Duties:
Maintain design documentation per Chart's product development process
Collaborate with engineering groups at other Chart sites to standardize design practices
Develop calculation packages that serve to automate routine calculations
Work with suppliers to design and develop subcomponents and subassemblies
Evaluate and contribute to product documentation, e.g. creation of specifications
Assist with validation testing of products, as needed
Work with manufacturing engineering, quality, and production to ensure production readiness and successful product launch of new or revised products
Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…
Working Conditions
Production factory support and office environment
Minimal work related travel may be required (approximately 5-10%)
Physical Requirements
Frequent standing, sitting and walking
Frequent lifting up to 25 lbs., occasional heavier lifting
Frequent computer work
Work Hazards:
Production floor environment will involve possible exposure to materials with rough edges, temperature extremes, moving mechanical parts, occasional flying debris, chemical cleaning solvents and their odors.
Working with cryogenic products will involve possible exposure to pressurized flammable gas, pressurized oxidizing gas, pressurized inert gas and very low temperatures (-320º F).
Your Education Should Be…
BS Engineering degree, preferably inMechanical Engineering but will consider Aerospace, Materials Science, or Nuclear Engineering disciplines
MS degree is a plus
Registered Professional Engineer is a plus
Your Professional Experience Should Be…
Required: Minimum 6 years of relevant engineering experience
Preferred: At least 3 years of experience in new product development in a production environment; project management exposure or direct experience
General:
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Highly motivated self-starter and a team leader
Demonstrated ability to plan and manage multiple tasks
Desire to drive accountability across project teams and functional team members
Must be proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
Technical:
Understanding of statics, heat transfer and fluid flow
Understanding of welding
Basic understand of cryogenic liquids, compressed gases and their properties
Structural FEA experience, CFD experience is a plus
Strong CAD skills a plus (Solidworks, Inventor, AutoCAD)
Chart is an equal opportunity employer